HistoriesWordsworth Editions, 1996 - 734 pages Translated with Notes by George Rawlinson. With an Introduction by Tom Griffith. Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining. Why did Pheidippides run the 26 miles and 385 yards (or 42.195 kilometres) from Marathon to Athens? And what did he do when he got there? Was the Battle of Salamis fought between sausage-sellers? Which is the oldest language in the world? Why did Leonidas and his 300 Spartans spend the morning before the battle of Thermopylae combing their hair? Why did every Babylonian woman have to sit in the Temple of Aphrodite until a man threw a coin into her lap, and how long was she likely to sit there? And what is the best way to kill a crocodile? This wide-ranging history provides the answers to all these fascinating questions as well as providing many fascinating insights into the Ancient World. |
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... oracle to colonise Libya - two accounts 156 Occupation of Platea 157 Settlement at Aziris 158 Colonisation of Cyrene 159-164 History of Cyrene from its foundation to the death of Arcesilaus III 165 Application of Pheretima to Aryandes ...
... oracle 141-142 The second oracle 143 Themistocles 144 Proposal of Themistocles to build a fleet 145 The Greeks make up their quarrels 146-147 Xerxes ' treatment of the Greek spies 148 Greek embassy to Argos - reply of the Argive council ...
... Oracle of Bacis 23 Advance of the Persian fleet 24-25 Persian sailors visit Thermopylae 26 Deserters from Arcadia 27-31 Persians invade Phocis wars of Phocians and Thessalians 32 Flight of the Phocians 33 Their towns burnt 34 Division ...
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Contents
BOOK ONE CLIO | 3 |
Chapters 13 Causes of quarrel between Persia and Egypt Nitetis story | 4 |
Xerxes urged to attack Greece | 6 |
Address of the Athenian envoys | 8 |
Coës and Histiaeus rewarded | 9 |
of the other troops | 28 |
Chapters 4243 Universal geography Circumnavigation of Libya | 44 |
oracles | 46 |
Chapters 6470 Demaratus deprived of his crown flies to Persia | 71 |
Chapter 7375 Athenian most distinguished Sophanes his conduct and fate | 76 |
Divination | 82 |
Chapters 103104 Proceedings of Xerxes | 105 |
Story of a Thracian king | 116 |
Artembares and Cyrus | 122 |
Course of the fleet | 124 |
Patriotic conduct of the Athenians the Athenians | 139 |
Chapters 7475 Fate of Prexaspes | 50 |
The Hypanis | 52 |
Greeks resolve to sail to the Isthmus | 56 |
The Arians Parthians | 67 |
Chapters 6567 Sacred animals | 68 |
Greeks occupy the defile of Tempe | 173 |
BOOK FOUR MELPOMENE | 305 |
BOOK SEVEN POLYHYMNIA | 511 |
BOOK NINE CALLIOPE | 677 |